Ian Roberts’s historical novel, "A Land Apart", mixes history and art to comment on how technology changes societies. In New France in 1634, somewhere along the banks of the Great Lakes, Totiri, an Iroquois war chief, trades with... Read More

The stories in Richard Wiley’s new collection all take place in the same city among characters who share connections. They are creatively mixed and span decades and tones. "Tacoma Stories" is a compelling whole formed of memorable... Read More

Sarah M. Eden’s masterful romance "Healing Hearts" is a story of love, forgiveness, and friendship in which dangerous secrets prove impossible to keep. It’s 1876 in the small, tight-knit frontier town of Savage Wells, Wyoming.... Read More

Oakland Ross’s "Swimming with Horses" is a multilayered adventure that is part mystery, part coming-of-age tale. The story vacillates between apartheid South Africa in 1962 and a small Ontario town a year later, when Hilary, a... Read More

The seemingly improbable friendship between Jack Cowdry, author J. Edward Chamberlin’s grandfather and a white rancher and banker, and Crop Eared Wolf, a warrior and Blackfoot chief, is recalled in the warm historical account, "The... Read More

In The Alchemist’s Illusion, Zoe Faust continues her search for a missing mentor. The mystery involves an evil painting, a phoenix pendant of dark provenance, and an art crime that spans centuries. On one of Zoe’s walks through a... Read More

Jan Wahl distills the eventful life of Hollywood actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr in this grade school biography. It is illuminating and illustrated and is sure to be inspiring for young scientists with its message that “Hedy wanted to... Read More

Humming with emotion, Auguste Corteau’s "Sixteen" plumbs mysteries both sonic and spiritual. It’s a globe-spanning and deeply personal alternate history. The Soviet Union seems on the verge of collapse in 1953. Mass defections to the... Read More